The purpose of the National Girls Summit is to develop a shared national vision among different partners at national and regional level and put in place all the necessary tools and mechanisms to realize the commitment to end child marriage and FGM/C by 2025 in a coordinated manner.

Parallel discussion sessions

Session Topics

2.00pm to 3.15pm

3.30pm to 4.15pm

Data and Evidence

Child Marriage Mapping: Preliminary findings:

National and Sub-national Profile

Drivers and protective factors

Good Programmes

Presenter: ODI (Dr. Nicola Jones)

Vital Registration

Presenter: Vital statistics agency Presenter: CSA

Facilitator: Ellen and Nikodimos

Child Marriage and FGM/C in Ethiopia

Understanding the context

Rationale for the practice

Changing trends

Presenter: Young Lives (Yisak Tafere)

Programmatic Evidence on what works to delay child marriage: Experience from three countries

Presenter: Population Council (Dr. Annabel Erulkar)

Facilitator: Girlhub (Metsehate)

Coordination

The National Alliance to end Child Marriage and FGM/C

Presenter: MOWCYA

Coordinating Religious Institutions in response to ending CEFM and FGM/C

Presenter: Inter-religious Council – Wro Aylanesh Erku

Facilitator: Meron Negussie

Federal level coordination on GBV – support to the victims

Presenter: MOJ

Tigray Experience from the HTP Coalition/committee on grass root coordination

Presenter: BOWCYA

Grassroots experiences

Finote Hiwot

Successes and challenges of grass roots programming

PresenterBogalech/Sigurd

Joint UNFPA/UNICEF FGM/C

Afar experience on eliminating FGM and Child Marriage

Presenter: Afar BOWCYA

Facilitator: Mieraf and Berhanu

Multisectoral response to end CEFM and FGM/C:

Health Extension Workers and

Women Development Groups

The role of health extension workers and women development groups in combating child marriage and FGM/C

complemented by experience sharing from a health extension worker and a women development group member